Your Gifts at Work Archives

• A friend the University could count on (10/20/09)
  Born of modest means, a business graduate and UT System employee turns savvy investing into a major gift
• Campus icon now ready for another 75 years (8/10/09)
  Dallas couple's gift spurs restoration of beloved 1933 Littlefield Fountain
• Inspiring young people to succeed (8/10/09)
  Meadows Foundation grant sends award-winning 'State of Tomorrow' DVDs to every Texas public middle and high school
• Gates boosts top-10 computer science program (7/7/09)
  $30 million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation brings planned state-of-the-art complex a step closer
• A laboratory for life (5/9/09)
  Seays' lead gift helps build cutting-edge new home for Psychology and Human Development and Family Sciences
• Bringing the Big Apple to the Forty Acres (5/9/09)
  One alum's mission: Raise University's profile by sending more New Yorkers to UT
• Trading the high seas for a higher education (3/24/09)
  Harrington Fellow Nick Crain applies skills he learned in the Navy to his graduate studies in corporate finance and governance
• Repeat donors enhance UT one gift at a time (3/12/09)
  Annual gifts strengthen the college, school, or program of your choice.
• A timely investment in urban planning (2/24/09)
  Dallas civic leaders Deedie and Rusty Rose give $1 million to the School of Architecture
• University announces $3 billion Campaign for Texas (12/12/08)
  UT Austin has already raised $722 million in drive to strengthen national competitiveness, global impact
• 'Horns Helping Horns' assists freshmen with less (8/27/08)
  Program gives neediest of new students a leg up as they begin their UT years
• $1.2 Million to Help Document World Conflicts (7/16/08)
  Houston's Bridgeway Foundation works with UT Libraries to combat oppression, genocide, and human rights violations
• Playwright takes home 2008 Keene Prize (7/2/08)
  Donor-funded award, given to University of Texas students only, is among the world's largest literary prizes
• Little Longhorn 'seniors' headed for middle school (6/13/08)
  UT Elementary, a one-of-a-kind public charter school, graduates its first class of fifth-graders
• $15 million for law, nursing, undergraduate studies (5/20/08)
  Houston attorney and philanthropist Joe Jamail calls his gift "the best and most lasting investment I could make"
• Bank of America invests $1 million in pediatrics (5/7/08)
  With new UT institute, Austin is set to become a hub of excellence for children's health and biomedical research
• Young researchers recognized for cutting-edge work (4/25/08)
  Sloan Fellowships reward outstanding promise among five assistant professors
• Taking a slice out of life (3/11/08)
  UT researchers use cutting-edge scanners to study extinct animals.
• Architecture team wins quarter-million-dollar prize (3/11/08)
  Permanent endowment will support graduate research in sustainable design
• Not just a pretty place (3/11/08)
  The National Wildflower Research Center's mission of increasing sustainable use and conservation of native wildflowers, plants, and landscapes is now finding roots in coursework at the University of Texas.
• Little Longhorns, big dreams (3/11/08)
  Cutting-edge approach at UT Elementary School features longer school days, family literacy program, latest research, and Texas Exes mentor program.